Can the mountains in Sanaag turn into farming settlements?

[Prince of Lasanod]

They appear to be very fertile, yet they are pretty much inhabited which is such a shame.

 

[Prince Abubu]

No. They are rare ecosystems for wildlife and plants.

 

[SultanuuFicaan]

No. They are rare ecosystems for wildlife and plants.

Certainly this. The Somalis are devastating the wildlife/ecosystem across the 'Greater Somalia region ' in regards to charcoal uses (Jubbaland isn't as lush as it used to be, it's going to become a desert shithole like NFD).

 

[Deactivated]

The words you are looking for are "Terrace farms".
Micro Terrace farming would be great however, it's much more difficult to scale like conventional farms.

 

[Opone]

They appear to be very fertile, yet they are pretty much inhabited which is such a shame.

how did that strip turn into that?

i failed geography in highschool clearly but, can the rest of somalia be like that?

Ive always wondered if the weird ass trees and plants in socotora could survive in somalia.

 

[WiilWaalan]

True i've always wondered why the population in such a beautiful land as Cal Madow area is so low

 

[Inquisitive_]

The problems you will find is the poor infrastructure and lack of roads there to transport your goods, just getting the equipment there is a struggle never mind the investments.

I supervised a whole convey from Xamar to Hobyo for road construction, leaving al-shabab nightmare aside and the various check points, the poor roads are a nightmare and simple stretches takes you several hours with regular breakdowns, your nearest ports are even worse.

This is the challenge all the farmers are going through, certain regions produce enough food to feed the whole country, but good luck with transport of it, the food will go stale before it gets even 1/4 of the way especially with the temperatures.

Then you have a far more nastier thing to deal with which is politics/business side of things, both P/land and S/land leadership have no interest in development as it will compete with other farms.

The NGO's has given P/land millions to develop these in Bari/Nugaal, why on earth would they invest in infrastructure that will let Sanaag compete? road blocks are set up on existing roads to stop Mogadishu port from taking over.

This happens all over Somalia btw and is not just exclusive to those regions. This is why no one will invest and why you had the talks about maydh port.

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

The problems you will find is the poor infrastructure and lack of roads there to transport your goods, just getting the equipment there is a struggle never mind the investments.

I supervised a whole convey from Xamar to Hobyo for road construction, leaving al-shabab nightmare aside and the various check points, the poor roads are a nightmare and simple stretches takes you several hours with regular breakdowns, your nearest ports are even worse.

This is the challenge all the farmers are going through, certain regions produce enough food to feed the whole country, but good luck with transport of it, the food will go stale before it gets even 1/4 of the way especially with the temperatures.

Then you have a far more nastier thing to deal with which is politics/business side of things, both P/land and S/land leadership have no interest in development as it will compete with other farms.

The NGO's has given P/land millions to develop these in Bari/Nugaal, why on earth would they invest in infrastructure that will let Sanaag compete? road blocks are set up on existing roads to stop Mogadishu port from taking over.

This happens all over Somalia btw and is not just exclusive to those regions. This is why no one will invest and why you had the talks about maydh port.

My god, when will this all change? Only a strong central government can fix this all.

I would have preferred Aideed ruling all of Somalia than the situation we currently are in.

 

[Deactivated]

The problems you will find is the poor infrastructure and lack of roads there to transport your goods, just getting the equipment there is a struggle never mind the investments.

I supervised a whole convey from Xamar to Hobyo for road construction, leaving al-shabab nightmare aside and the various check points, the poor roads are a nightmare and simple stretches takes you several hours with regular breakdowns, your nearest ports are even worse.

This is the challenge all the farmers are going through, certain regions produce enough food to feed the whole country, but good luck with transport of it, the food will go stale before it gets even 1/4 of the way especially with the temperatures.

Then you have a far more nastier thing to deal with which is politics/business side of things, both P/land and S/land leadership have no interest in development as it will compete with other farms.

The NGO's has given P/land millions to develop these in Bari/Nugaal, why on earth would they invest in infrastructure that will let Sanaag compete? road blocks are set up on existing roads to stop Mogadishu port from taking over.

This happens all over Somalia btw and is not just exclusive to those regions. This is why no one will invest and why you had the talks about maydh port.

In the next 10-15 years Somalia will step into the private equity era. PEs owned by somalis who will invest and build economic zones. You can't wait for the government to do something.

Farming zones need to be developed and become integrated with maintence companies, storage suppliers, seed sellers and good transporters. This can only happen with a private sector investment fund.

 

[Inquisitive_]

@Prince of Lasanod

Brother puntite suggestion will be the future, many private firms are already much more powerful then any regional government, the key to success is to work with them not against them as they still have monopoly over most things, these people have so much money they are absolutely starving for ideas and entrepreneurs and they are happy to fund you.

I did a few contracting stints with Hormuud even on behalf of Dahabshiil, these guys pay Chinese engineers ridiculous amount of money for simple stuff because no one else is able to bring them any proposals or skill-sets they are starving for.

Both companies bizarrely sending students to India to study masters in IT which is utterly useless because they are looking for network/software/database engineers, agriculture is a very big field they are looking into, they have already sent several students abroad to again study useless master degrees, if you have a track record and can bring them proposals they will bite your hand off, I get emails from them until this day.


Look for the largest firm in your area and simply partner up with them as they already hold tremendous power and influence and bring them a proposal, don't be scared they will steal your ideas or anything, because they really don't have the skill-sets nor the people to implement them, even large angel investors and a hedge fund I worked for would dismiss you if you brought a non disclosure paper with you for them to sign, it's all about implementations/plan/track record not the idea which they have heard a dozen of times before.